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| Kaptai Lake Chittagong |
Kaptai
Lake is the biggest man made lake in Bangladesh. It is situated in the Kaptai
Upazila under Rangamati District of Chittagong Division. The lake was made
because of building the Kaptai Dam on the Karnaphuli River, as a feature of the
Karnaphuli Hydro-electric task. The Kaptai Lake's normal profundity is 100 feet
(30 m) and most extreme profundity is 490 feet (150 m). Development
of the store for the hydro-electric plant started in 1956 by the Government of
East Pakistan. Subsequently, 54,000 sections of land (220 km2) of farmland in
the Rangamati District went submerged and made the lake. The hydro-electric
undertaking was subsidized by the United States. The task was done in 1962.
Worldwide Engineering Company and Utah International Inc. gotten the agreement
for development of the dam. The dam is 670.8 meters in length, and 54.7 meters
high. The dam has a 745 feet (227 m) long spillway containing 16 doors. Through
the spillway 5,250,000 cu ft/s (149,000 m3/s) of water can pass.
The
land that went submerged because of the dam development, was 40% of the
aggregate arable land in the region. Alongside that, 29 square miles (75 km2)
of the Government-possessed woods, and 234 square miles (610 km2) of other
timberland arrive went submerged. Around 18,000 families with a sum of very
nearly 100 thousand individuals were likewise uprooted. The royal residence of
the ruler of the Chakmas was likewise overflowed and is presently submerged.